From Proposal to Applause
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Getting a talk accepted and delivering it effectively is something that almost anyone can learn how to do. If you learn by trial-and-error, though, that may be a painful process which takes several years.
Description
Since you’re at this conference, you’ve probably spoken at other conferences, or at least thought about submitting a talk proposal to some other conference. Getting a talk accepted and delivering it effectively is something that almost anyone can learn how to do. If you learn by trial-and-error, though, that may be a painful process which takes several years.
As someone who has delivered talks around the world (OSCON, FISL, FOSS.In, pgCon, PHPCon, SCALE, etc.) and who sits on the evaluation committees for three conferences, I’ll share some of my accumulated knowledge on how to get from the Call for Papers to the applause at the end of your talk, including:
- Before you write a proposal How and what to propose
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- Structure of a Talk How to make slides, and how not to
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- Demos Rehearsing
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- Filling the room Five things to remember
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- How to deliver a talk, and how not to Q&A
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— Follow-up
Tags
conferences, presentation skills, tutorial
Speaking experience
Speaker
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Project- Website: http://www.pgexperts.com/
- Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup
- Twitter: fuzzychef
Biography
Josh Berkus is best known as a Core Team member of the world-spanning PostgreSQL project. He is CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. and in his 12 years as a database consultant he has worked with CouchDB, MySQL, Oracle, and MSSQL Server as well as Postgres, and is heavily involved in many OSS communities, including BIRT, OSCON, OSfA, Noisebridge and more. He’s also a potter and a mean cook.
Sessions
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- Title: Building a SQL Database That Works
- Track: Cooking
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
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Excerpt:
As a developer, what you really need are some simple recipes for how to think about designing your SQL databases so that they are simple, maintainable, expandable and easy to troubleshoot.
- Speakers: Josh Berkus
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- Title: Open Source Press Relations
- Track: Business
- Room: Hawthorne
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
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Excerpt:
You have a really cool open source project and everyone should see it, try it, and use it. But … they don’t seem to know about it. How can you make sure your project gets the press coverage it deserves?
- Speakers: Josh Berkus